The triangular, blue and gold emblem originally featured a full shuttle stack, including two solid rocket boosters and external tank. Landis' "Orbiters On Display" logo, which has appeared on NASA internal documents, technicians' safety vests, lapel pins and souvenir medallions, adapted the original Space Transportation System (STS) program logo used since the late 1970s. He also designed a set of three patches for Discovery's, Enterprise's and Endeavour's museum delivery flights. While Moultrie's mission patch is the only official emblem for the ferry flights, it's not the only NASA patch produced for the shuttles' museum deliveries.ĭryden Flight Research Center photographer Tony Landis, who designed the mission markings added to NASA 905's fuselage prior to its final flights, was also behind a logo for the team working on the orbiters' transition and retirement. "I think it looks really, really good," Rieke said. The phrase "The Final Mission" is inscribed along a tab on the bottom of the emblem. The shuttle names, Discovery, Enterprise and Endeavour, are inscribed along the top border of the patch in the order they will be ferried to museums. The three orbiters are represented in their iconic black and white, with one mounted on the SCA. The aircraft, including the pair of T-38 trainer jets, the C-9 Pathfinder that will fly ahead of the SCA, and the 747, are rendered in gold on the patch. "We also have the C-9 Pathfinder on there and T-38s, which will be our videography craft flying with us." "It has all three orbiters names on there, has the American flag, and has the shuttle up on top of NASA 905," Rieke described. The emblem's artwork incorporates the three shuttles and three different types of aircraft that will take part in the ferry flights, including the SCA, known by its tail number NASA 905. Udvar-Hazy Center for its permanent display. Landing at Dulles International Airport, the orbiter will then be offloaded by crane and towed to the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum's Steven F. on Tuesday (April 17), weather permitting. Moultrie, together with fellow pilot Bill Rieke and a crew of flight engineers, are scheduled to fly Discovery, mounted atop the 747, to Washington, D.C. "There's an approved NASA patch that we are going to be using for all three shuttle ferries." "We do have a crew patch for this series of missions," Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA) chief pilot Jeff Moultrie told collectSPACE. It will also serve as the official insignia for the similar deliveries of orbiters Enterprise and Endeavour later this month and year, respectively. The emblem, which was shared with, was designed by the captain of the modified Boeing 747 jumbo jet that will fly Discovery to Washington, D.C. It may not be heading back into space and its crew members aren't astronauts, but space shuttle Discovery's final flight has its own mission patch.
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